Thursday 31 July 2014

Crescent Love: Brighter than the Dawning Blue 夜明け前より瑠璃色な (Yoake Mae yori Ruriiro na)



Alternative Name: 夜明前的琉璃色 (Yè Míng Qián De Liú Lí Sè)


Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Comedy, Action, Sci-Fi

Description: 

The Earth and the Moon's Sphere Kingdom have long had a poor relationship due to a devastating war years earlier, but Sphere Kingdom Princess Feena Fam Earthlight seeks to make steps towards changing that by doing a homestay on Earth at the home of the Earth President's secretary, in order to learn more about life on Earth. This is not the first time that Feena and the secretary's teenage "brother" Tatsuya have met, though, and the connection of the past contributes toward love in the present. Their love could paint a new future for Earth-Moon relations, but the resulting complications also threaten to tear everything - even the fragile international peace - apart.

The moon and the earth are linked by a single contact point, "Mitsuru ga Sakichau Ouren Rakuniushi" where Tatsuya lives under the supervision of the Sphere Kingdom (Moon Kingdom)'s Princess Feena Fam Earthlight who is coming to stay at his home.

Episode: 12

Original Run: October 4, 2006 – December 20, 2006

Studio: Daume

Rosario + Vampire ロザリオとバンパイア (Rozario to Banpaia)



Alternative Name: 十字架与吸血鬼 (Shí Zì Jià Yǔ Xī Xuè Guǐ)


Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance, Supernatural, Vampires, 
               Fanservice, Ecchi, Harem, Youkai/
Monsters, School,  
               Split Personality

Description: 

Due to poor grades, Tsukune Aono, an average high school student, has been unable to get accepted into any private academy of his choice. By exceptional accident, the only school to accept him turns out to be anything but ordinary; the school is attended by youkai disguised as humans. Fearing for his life, he attempts to escape only to meet Moka Akashiya, a beautiful girl who just happens to be a vampire. Despite this, Tsukune decides to stay at the academy, hiding his human nature from students and teachers. Tsukune also discovers that when the rosary around Moka's neck is removed, her true nature emerges.

Episode: 13 + 13 

Original Run
Season 1: January 3, 2008 – March 27, 2008
Season 2: October 2, 2008 – December 24, 2008

Studio: Gonzo

Monday 21 July 2014

Z/X: Zillions of enemy X ゼクス (Zekusu)



Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Tournaments, Card Games, 
               Monsters, Isekai, Angels, Demons

Description: 

Five "Black Points" suddenly appeared around the world as portals to parallel worlds. Immediately after, strange creatures began their invasion from these portals. These creatures are the inhabitants of five worlds—the same worlds in different timeframes. In order to ensure their own future timeframe survives, each of the five invasion forces battle to wipe the other future timeframes out. The key is one card-shaped device.

Episode: 12 + 12 

Original Run
Season 1: January 9, 2014 – March 27, 2014
Season 2: October 8, 2019 – December 24, 2019

Studio: Telecom Animation Film (S1) / Passione (S2)

After School Pleiades 放課後のプレアデス (Hōkago no Pureadesu)



Genre: Adventure, Action, Magical Girls, Magic, Moe, School, Drama,
               Magical Boy, Aliens, Sci-Fi, 
Outer Space, Alternative Version

Description: 

Subaru is a young girl who discovers that her best friend Aoi is part of magical group trying to recover alien engine fragments so that a little being from the Pleiades star system can return to his home. Subaru considers joining them as she was selected by the Pleiadian, president of this after school club, as the possible new member.

Episode: 4 ONA  + 12 Episodes + 1 Movie

Original Run
ONA: February 1, 2011
Alternative Version: April 9, 2015 - June 25, 2015
Movie: June 4, 2011

Studio: Gainax 

Brothers Conflict ブラザーズ コンフリクト (Burazāzu Konfurikuto)



Genre: Romance, Reverse Harem

Description: 

Ema Hinata is the daughter of the famous adventurer Rintarō Hinata. One day, Ema finds out that her dad is going to remarry a successful apparel maker named Miwa Asahina. Rather than bothering them, she decides to move in to the Sunrise Residence complex that is owned by Miwa. From there, she discovers that she has 13 stepbrothers.

Episode: 12 + 1 Special + 2 OVA

Original Run
Series: July 2, 2013 – September 17, 2013
Special: February 26, 2014 
OVA: December 19, 2014  February 11, 2015

Studio: Brain's Base

Wednesday 16 July 2014

Blue Literature Series 青い文学シリーズ (Aoi Bungaku Series)



Alternative Name: 青之文学 (Qīng Zhī Wén Xué)


Genre: Horror, Mystery, Psychological, Historical, Literature, 
               Alternative Version

Description: 

An animated adaptation of six classical Japanese literature pieces:-

* No Longer Human, by Osamu Dazai (episode 1–4): The path of a man with intense feelings of alienation towards society and the feeling of "humanity".


* Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita, by Ango Sakaguchi (episode 5–6): A forest bandit finds a beautiful maiden in the forest and takes her to be his wife, but she is more than she seems to be.


* Kokoro, by Natsume Soseki (episode 7–8): A young man lives in Tokyo as a renter with a widow and her daughter. He invites his childhood friend, a monk, to come live with him, hoping to help him. When the monk falls in love with the widow's daughter, it drives a rift between them. The story is narrated from two points of view, the man's and the monk's.


* Run, Melos!, by Osamu Dazai (episode 9–10): A playwright writes a play based on the story "Run, Melos", and deals with his own feelings of betrayal towards his childhood friend.


* The Spider's Thread, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (episode 11): Kandata, a cruel and evil bandit is executed and lands in hell. The one good thing he had done in his life was to not kill a spider he met in the city. The spider drops him a thread to climb up into heaven. His elation is short-lived, however, as he realizes that others have started climbing the thread behind him.


* Hell Screen, by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (episode 12): Yoshihide, the greatest painter in the country, is commissioned to draw his greatest work, an image of the king's country inside his mausoleum. In the despotic king's realm, Yoshihide can see nothing but the suffering of the commoners. He decides to make his last work a tribute to the country as it really is.


Episode: 12 + 1 Movie

Original Run
Series: October 11, 2009 – December 27, 2009
Movie: December 12, 2009

Studio: Madhouse

Pet Shop of Horrors ペットショップ オブ ホラーズ (Pettoshoppu obu Horāzu)



Alternative Name: 恐怖宠物 (Kǒng Bù Chǒng Wù Diàn)


Genre: Horror, Mystery, Supernatural, Pets/Animals

Description: 

Count D, a quite interesting pet shop owner from an area called Chinatown, sells rare and hard to come by pets to people longing for something special, but with each sale comes a contract. If the rules of the contract are followed, everything goes fine, but if someone should break the rules of the contract, the pet shop cannot be held responsible for anything unfortunate that might happen. Leon Orcot, a homicide detective, has linked many odd and unexplainable deaths together; they all were customers of Count D's pet shop, and he intends to find out why.

Episode: 4

Original Run: March 1, 1999 – March 25, 1999

Studio: Madhouse

Tuesday 15 July 2014

Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan 撲殺天使ドクロちゃん (Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-chan)



Alternative Name: 杀天使朵库萝 (Pū Shā Tiān Shǐ Duǒ Kù Luó)


Genre: Magic, Comedy, Romance, Ecchi, Angels, Fanservice, 
               Magical Girl, Gratuitous Violence, Parody, Harem, Fantasy

Description: 

In the future, a man named Sakura is destined to create the technology for eternal life, which (due to Sakura's lolicon tendencies) freezes all women's aging once they turn twelve. God refuses to allow this, so he sends his angels to the past to kill Sakura before he can do this. But one angel, Dokuro-chan, decides to try to change the future without killing him. Problem is, Dokuro is very temperamental, and is constantly killing Sakura (and lots of other people too) in incredibly bloody ways with her giant spiked club. Good thing she can bring people back to life - if only to gruesomely kill them again the next time she loses her temper.

Episode: 4  + 

Original Run
Season 1: March 12, 2005 – September 10, 2005
Season 2: August 11, 2007 – November 10, 2007

Studio: Hal Film Maker & Nomad (S1) / Hal Film Maker (S2)

Extinct Device Girl - Amazing Twins 絶滅危愚少女〜Amazing Twins〜 (Zetsumetsu Kigu Shōjo: Amazing Twins)



Alternative Name: 绝灭危愚少女 Amazing Twins 

                                       (Jué Miè Wēi Yú Shào Nǚ Amazing Twins)


Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Magic, Espers, Moe, Twins, Supernatural,
               Split Personality, 

Description: 

Amane Todoroki is a young girl who is straightforward but also unthinking. She will try her very best in everything and say, "I don't know how to answer you if you ask me whether this can be done. I just believe it can. If not, then nothing will get started." She easily gets stuck in her thinking, but she can also get easily moved at something small and start crying.

Episode: 2

Original Run: February 26, 2014 – June 25, 2014

Studio: Encourage Films

Saturday 5 July 2014

Good Luck Girl! 貧乏神が (Binbō-gami ga!)



Alternative Name: 穷神来 (Qióng Shén Lái Le)


Genre: Comedy, Action, Supernatural, Ecchi, Parody, School, Deities

Description: 

Pretty, busty rich girl Sakura Ichiko has been blessed with an inordinate amount of good fortune, so much. The truth is she's actually sucking the fortune from those around her. To correct that massive imbalance, Momiji, a God of Misfortune, has come to Earth to "treat" Sakura—only Sakura isn't so willing to cooperate. As part of an ongoing effort to remedy the problem, Momiji starts living with Sakura.

Episode: 13

Original Run: July 4, 2012 – September 26, 2012

Studio: Sunrise